Resist Cynicism, Confusion on Campus

His Supreme Repellency, George Soros, makes a move to co-opt the campus power. The cynics among us helping him do it.

When a 25-year-old American soldier named Aaron Bushnell approached the gates of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC on February 25, 2024, a horrific ordeal lay just ahead of him. He was going to position himself in front of the embassy, douse himself with gasoline, and light a match.

I am about to commit an act of extreme protest, he said in a livestream. And just imagine the monumental courage it took for him to continue.

Many of us like to ask ourselves, he said, what we would have done during slavery. The answer is, you are doing it. Right now.

Aaron Bushnell was a remarkable young man. Here’s what he was talking about: In 1998, US President Bill Clinton made a tour of Africa. It was quickly dubbed “the apology tour” for the many public remarks Clinton delivered while there expressing contrition for slavery. At the time, I thought the whole thing was distasteful in the extreme. Apologizing for sins someone else committed is never a good look. It always comes off as trying to gain the benefit of making a clean breast of things without having to undergo the painful process of self-honesty—a cheap way to score virtue points.

And here was the president of the United States doing it on TV in front of a whole continent. The worst was when he apologized to Africa for slavery in a major speech delivered in Uganda. Eastern Africa. The Africans who were brought as slaves to the New World were from Western Africa. To the Ugandans, Clinton’s apology to them for American slavery made as much sense as it would to a Brazilian if the prime minister of Japan apologized during a speech in Sao Paulo for the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.

But it didn’t matter to Bill Clinton or the press corp following him because Africans weren’t the intended audience for President Clinton’s apology to the Africans, anyway. Americans were. And there were plenty of Americans—white Americans—who felt the warm glow of cost-free virtuousness as they watched “our country” apologize to “Africa.” As Aaron Bushnell put it: Many of us like to ask ourselves what we would have done during slavery.

When Zion rules

The great problem with that, of course, is that it allows us to close our eyes to the injustices occurring right in front of us. Aaron Bushnell forced people to open their eyes. Don’t be so smug, he said, pretending you are some morally superior creature because you oppose slavery. That’s easy. But there is a genocide occurring right now in which you are complicit by your willful blindness. And what are you doing now?

Bill Clinton provided a perfect example of that convenient blindness on that same African trip. After Uganda, he stopped in Rwanda to apologize for the genocide that had occurred there just four years earlier. It’s worth reading parts of his speech in Rwanda, keeping in mind that we just sent another $70-some billion to support the genocides of Christians in Ukraine and Muslims and Christians in Israel and continue to support a war machine on which we’ve spent, according to an estimate from

Good Citizen

, $35 trillion since the Truman Administration in today’s dollars.

Clinton to Rwandans:

The international community, together with nations in Africa, must bear its share of responsibility for this tragedy [the ‘94 massacres], as well. We did not act quickly enough after the killing began… We did not immediately call these crimes by their rightful name: genocide.

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We owe to those who died and to those who survived who loved them, our every effort to increase our vigilance and strengthen our stand against those who would commit such atrocities in the future, here or elsewhere.

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Let us work together as a community of civilized nations to strengthen our ability to prevent and, if necessary, to stop genocide.¹

Empty apologies, empty promises, from the leader of a nation of cynics.

Aaron Bushnell protested against that empty cynicism with the utter authenticity of his action. You are complicit right now, he said, and we had to listen and boy did that piss a lot of people off.

Many condemned Aaron’s act because they oppose suicide. Suicide? Aaron was obviously not one of the 92 white men who killed themselves in the United States that Sunday. He didn’t immolate himself because he was tired of life, cynics.

Then there were those like Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, who wrote a letter to the military asking how they could have let someone so mentally ill as Aaron Bushnell into the service in the first place. Senator Cotton is currently co-sponsoring S.Res. 617: A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that Israel has the inherent right to defend itself and take necessary steps to eradicate the terrorist threat posed by Hamas. He is also the primary sponsor of S. 510: Expediting Israeli Aerial Refueling Act of 2023.

Aerial refueling is only necessary for long-range offensive strikes by Israel, which Senator Cotton casts as “defensive.” Senator Cotton holds these contradictory positions as a Christian Zionist. He supports the slaughter of innocents as long as it is Israel doing the slaughtering. Then it is part of “God’s Plan.” Senator Cotton believes he knows what God’s plans are, but God can’t get it done without the help of Senator Cotton and the US military and billions and billions of US dollars. The upside for Senator Cotton is that once the Jews kill a red cow in a Palestinian mosque, Jesus will come back and take him and the other Christian Zionists off to heaven. But Aaron Bushnell is the one who is mentally ill.

One stacker titled his attack on Aaron Bushnell, “The Ballad Of Alan Bushmill, A 2020s icon, for a week anyway.....” His mocking, exceedingly cynical take was that Aaron Bushnell had failed to achieve anything with his “stupid” action, since everyone has already forgotten his name. Apparently, on the evening of February 25th, there should have been a fully formed political movement underway to reclaim US foreign policy from Israel, or Aaron’s sacrifice was a failure. Even more cynically, he accused those who recognized Aaron Bushnell “as a hero and martyr,” of doing so “because they were in common cause against Zionism.”

But that is a misleading way of putting it. Aaron Bushnell said nothing about Zionism. His protest was against genocide. I’m against Zionism and one of the reasons why is its doctrinal prescription of genocide. So, yes, of course we are in common cause and of course I see Aaron Bushnell as an ally struggling against the same evil—an evil,

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, in which we are all complicit. Right now.

A few weeks back, I took “Thank You, Aaron Bushnell” yard signs and set a few up next to a parking lot across the street from a large university campus and spent the afternoon and evening talking to students about Aaron Bushnell (only one remembered his name). But, as I reported afterward, the students, the ones I talked to anyway, seemed far less dogmatic or fearful or ignorant about the subjects of Israel, genocide, and so on, than most older Americans. If there was blindness, it wasn’t willful, and that is the crucial difference—the crucial difference that prompted me to express a higher confidence than ever that, in Aaron’s noble sacrifice, there is great power if we can just recognize it and embrace it.

Since I wrote those words on April 4, we’ve seen that power manifest itself—swirling just beneath the surface—among the population of college students. I wasn’t the only one who recognized it. A powerful and evil man, who stands at the extreme opposite end of the scale of human morality from Aaron Bushnell, recognized it as well. George Soros has moved quickly to co-opt the power struggling to find expression on American campuses. The Talmudic cabal hopes to do to the college protests what they did to the Tea Party movement in the 90s and the Occupy Wall Street movement in the 2000s—confuse the power to diffuse the power. Aaron Bushnell is a central unmovable Truth around which the power can tether itself. (How Aaron Bushnell felt about capitalism,

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, is so utterly beside-the-point.)

However,

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is right that everyone has forgotten Aaron Bushnell’s name. (He’s wrong that that fact proves Aaron’s self-immolation was “stupid.”) So, I had some stickers made up with a QR code that leads to information about Aaron. Now we have yard signs and stickers saying “thank you” to Aaron Bushnell for his enormous courage. My hope is that somehow the stickers and signs can serve as a way to help shape the course of the campus power.

I don’t have George Soros’ billions, of course, and I am fully aware that the effort will almost certainly, in the end, have no effect. But that’s the worst reason not to try. Nothing—neither the worshiper of Destruction and Chaos, George Soros, nor the Book of Revelation, nor the Elders of Zion—is in complete control of the future. The only way we can be sure we will succumb in the end to the demand by YHWH that we be “utterly destroyed” is if we compliantly lay our necks on the altar by doing nothing.

You can get your own free sticker (or even purchase a few to help cover the cost for a few others) here. Or by scanning this:

I’m coding this website by hand almost literally in Notepad, so it’s just an extremely slow process. But, it works. Be patient. The content and stuff I’m putting in as fast as I can.

1. Bill Clinton, Remarks to the People of Rwanda, March 25, 1998, National Archives